The Sleepwalkers is a trilogy, where Broch takes "the degeneration of values" as his main theme. The trilogy has been praised by Milan Kundera, whose own writing has been greatly influenced by Broch. It is considered, along with Robert Musil´s The Man Without Qualities, to be a masterpiece of modern Austrian prose of the first half of the 20th century.

The Sleepwalkers is a trilogy, where Broch takes "the degeneration of values" as his main theme. The trilogy has been praised by Milan Kundera, whose own writing has been greatly influenced by Broch. It is considered, along with Robert Musil´s The Man Without Qualities, to be a masterpiece of modern Austrian prose of the first half of the 20th century.

In "The Sleepwalkers" acclaimed historian and author of Iron Kingdom, Christopher Clark, examines the causes of the First World War. Sunday Times Books of the Year 2012. The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering efficie...(展开全部)